Fans of the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants don't get along, so it was a bit disconcerting to see officials from the two teams hanging out. Yet here were the head of IT for two of the biggest rivals in Major League Baseball in the same suite, looking for the same thing: truly wireless wifi, sharing notes on how to improve the internet experience at their respective stadiums.

Every day I get at least one email from a new, shared work space, accelerator, or incubator. They’ve been popping up everywhere over the last two years. It seems like everyone’s trying to be the place where the next big idea emerges. Here's one, though, that is setting itself apart from the rest. It’s the Startup Dream Team, a nine-week program for interns and aspiring entrepreneurs from around the world who want to get their foot in the door in Silicon Valley.

In the middle of the scalding Arizona desert, Meredith Perry, CEO of uBeam, is wrapping a tourniquet around Travis Steffan, CEO of online fitness training program, WorkOutBOX. She’s one of more than a dozen entrepreneurs taking part in a series of exercises that instill military discipline, tactical methodologies, and entrepreneurial acumen, which, the organizers hope, can transcend the field to the boardroom.

Neil Blumenthal talks to Sarah Lacy about how he got started as an entrepreneur. He said he had three choices. He explains why he chose to sell fake IDs. Blumenthal also talks about how he got into non-profit work giving glasses to needy people and how that led him to start his company.

I once did the math and calculated that in the one weekend each year when entrepreneurs, executives, and investors gather on the island of Maui for the annual MaiTai kiteboarding event, $7 billion in market cap is skating across the water.

I can’t tell you how many times entrepreneurs have asked me to introduce them to Sir Richard Branson, who I've interviewed a number of times. “Learn to kiteboard," I tell them, "and I’m certain you’ll run across him on the water at some point.” Oh, and there’s one other piece of advice I can offer: Know venture capitalist Bill Tai and professional kitboarder Susi Mai. They are the creators of the annual MaiTai (Get it: Susi MAI and Bill TAI?) Maui gathering, which includes 150 of their closest friends in the tech community who meet each year to collaborate on their startups and play extreme sports.